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Facing an enemy intent on creating a highly contested
electromagnetic environment, S&T investments in Army
networks focus on mobility, redundancy, ease of use
and detection avoidance.
by Mr. Seth Spoenlein, Mr. James Snodgrass, Mr. Michael Breckenridge and Dr. Brian Rivera
The expeditionary nature of the future force will
require mobile, secure communication networks
that are dynamic---able to sur vive in active elec-
tronic warfare environments and available in
all environments to ensure continuous mission command.
However, obtaining and sustaining the higher ground in a
network context will not come easily in the future battlespace.
e enemy will have advanced technologies designed spe-
ci cally to create a highly contested electromagnetic (EM)
environment, disrupting our ability to communicate,
degrading our performance and injecting uncertainty into
our decision cycle. To address these challenges and provide
robust EM defense of information exchange, we need to
develop mobile communication networks that can make
optimal use of the EM spectrum, enhance EM security and
reduce the probability of detection or intercept.
In addition, the network must be resilient to attacks in both
the cyber and land domains by responding and adapting
much more rapidly than today's networks. It must have low
EM signatures and operate on-the-move. e entire network
setup, from spectrum allocation to subnet con guration and
security monitoring, must be automated to simplify net-
work operation. Today's tactical Army networks are reliant
on conventional radio-frequency (RF) technologies, which
limits our ability to maintain communications in a contested
environment.
erefore, Army science and technology (S&T) is investing
in innovative mobile communication platforms that employ
advances in RF and nontraditional portions of the EM spec-
trum; highly directed adaptive anti-jam antennas to mitigate
e ects of multipath interference; and new algorithms and
software to predict network performance, enhance cyberse-
curity and provide network self-con guring and self-healing
capabilities.
Maintaining persistent connectivity, or network resilience,
amid the noncontiguous and disrupted communication links
Path of GREATEST
RESILIENCE
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